Jobless Claims Down

July 22, 1988

Initial claims for state unemployment insurance fell on a seasonally adjusted basis by 9,000 in the week ended July 9, to 295,000 from 304,000 the week before, the Labor Department said. In the week ended July 2, 2.032 million people nationwide were receiving state unemployment benefits, down 71,000 from the week before. That amounted to 2.1 percent of all those covered by the program.